Jacob:
First of all, it's important to recognize that SORM is a system for lawful
access to telephone and IP traffic. It is normalized under the laws of the
Russian Federation and most of the countries of the former Soviet Union. In
other words, it is not a secret system, but rather one
Jacob:
As you know, I've been involved with
ONI for the past decade, and I know you've taken a very keen interest
in these issues in the last few years (by you, I also mean the TOR
project).
Well, I've tried for the better part of ten years to learn about the
internal methods of ONI.
Libtech,
Just in case there are people out there still interested in Turkmenistan :-)
One of the contributors to our report recently started up a Facebook page
which has become quite popular amongst the Turkmenistan opposition. It can be
found here: www.facebook.com/salamturkmen and
This thought led me to a more general question: does Secdev have plans to
make data / methodology / code behind Black Watch and the other components
of Secdev's measures and study of openness available for peer review
replication?
John's point drove at the heart of a concern of mine regarding
Collin, (John),
All of this requires longer discussion, but I'll be brief here (for now).
Yes, we intend on making Black Watch open-source. And yes, we intend on
making data from Black Watch Open Data on censorship and surveillance.
WTR to your question Collin, Black Watch consists of
Morgan,
Thanks for your note. I use the term interview euphemistically. Obviously
we used a much more sophisticated set of methods including in depth
debriefs with former employees, contractors, suppliers as well as other
forms of clandestine collection. The point is that we were able to get a
In the case of SORM-II, it also has a very distinct signature which is
visible if you are sitting in line with the system...
Our intention with the testing platform is to contribute to the creation
of censorship and surveillance Open Data...
That's excellent to hear, does SecDev intend to
Hi Colin,
Just about to rest any doubt about this, I meant clandestine as a synonym
of in secret. Likewise, by debriefs I simply mean having long in-depth
discussions with individual designed to accrue as many data points as
possible about past events, or circumstances. None of this is
Thank you for sharing your report, Rafal. I read it with great interest.
I see that you devoted about a third of this report to Internet
surveillance in Turkmenistan, but you don't mention Gamma or Finfisher
even once. The discovery that Gamma International's products were being
used to spy on
The SecDev Group has released a study of Internet censorship and surveillance
in Turkmenistan. The report was commissioned and financially supported by the
Open Society Foundations. It is posted on the ONI Website , and can also be
downloaded from here
Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan’s
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